it even if we don t find the wreckage we at least have the information off the black box. it is technology that has been out there but not viable for commercial application. it takz maintenance and too much over sight and when does it eject who are ejects it how do we collect it how do we protect it. so there s a lot of questions but there s other technology out there that could use on board systems and the data recorder information and put it in data burst. you can get it every minute every 30 seconds, whatever time interval you want. that way we can build the scenario without ever finding the wreckage. thank you for the information. coming up was sony attack an inside job. the new questions about who is behind the move. and new reaction suggesting
when this one came, not at the very hourly point, it came eight hours after the previous report. that s clearly why this jumps out of the data. what would that mean? why would a plane send that ping outside of reports? that s right where we are, the question of the day, is this when it hits the water? is this what causes some partial burst of information as the electron nicks in the aircraft are inundated with water? whatever information data burst is available, that s what they are looking at. this could be something that might send out a burst, not on its scheduled hourly report possibly hitting the water. also the theory that possibly when the plane turns, because it has an antenna on each wing, this could be a turn as the plane was heading down? again, possibly. those are the things that
and not the same fidelity as the images if the chinese and australians earlier in the week and something else came out today. we talked about the acars data. that is the data burst that comes from the plane. it s transmitted every 30 minutes or something in it and really updates what is happening with the plane s systems. the last acars ka da that burst we said before was a 1:07 a.m. malaysian authorities today came out and contradicted something. u.s. authorities said last week that the last acars data burst suggested that the pilot, somebody in the cockpit had preprogrammed in a u-turn. authorities today said there is no such preprogram in the acars data burst so this is yet again a situation where we re dealing with conflicting information from the malaysians, the u.s. authorities, whatever. it is important because it suggests maybe it wasn t preplanned as the data burst and
do a u turn. this information, we are told by our government sources, was transmitted via the system by a data burst of information that came down at 1:07 a.m. and then 12 minutes later we had the last radio call. as for the latest developments today off the coast of australia by about 1,500 miles it s a three-hour flight. they have shrunk down the search zone to about 102,000 square miles, roughly the size of colorado. they are going over this in a methodical way with airplanes. doing a grid search and using advanced radars and capability on board those planes to look for any signs of debris. and if they find debris then they would have to do a series of very advanced mathematical calculations taking into consideration the currents down in the ocean to figure out if
positioning. nine minutes later, the radar loses the plane all together. here s what s new. i want to you follow me step by step. the acars system was programmed to transmit information in 30-minute intervals. the next scheduled data burst would be at 1:37. that didn t happen. they admit from 1:07 to 1:37, they have no idea when that acars equipment stopped working. it could have stopped at any point during that 30-minute block of time. that s a much different story than what we heard this weekend when authorities in malaysia stated that the two systems, acars and the transponder went off separately and said because they went off separately, it looked like it was deliberate. they are getting this new timeline and people say this puts back on the table the possibility that maybe this was mechanical and not the pilot. brooke?